Projects
The future of social housing
We have undertaken a variety of projects on the future of social housing for the Housing Corporation.
The role of registered social landlords (RSLs) in tackling poverty
This paper was concerned with the potential contribution that RSLs can make to tackling the poverty faced by their tenants. In particular, it discussed how RSLs can:
- Reduce their tenants’ costs as far as possible, for example, through energy efficiency schemes and other housing management measures.
- Operate as information providers and ‘gateway’ organisations to enable easier access for their tenants to, for example, financial and other services.
- Work in partnership with other organisations to regenerate their local communities, particularly through employment schemes.
- Develop coherent anti-poverty strategies that make an awareness of poverty issues central to core housing activities.
The future of registered social landlords
This paper was concerned with how the role of registered social landlords might change over, say, the next twenty years. In addition to the contextual information on shape and size below, the material is organised under four broad themes:
- Supply and demand: looking at future rising demand, client groups, ways of promoting and meeting demand, and strategic approaches to affordable housing markets.
- Financial and regulatory regime: focusing on the impact of rent reform for RSLs’ revenues; changing private and public capital financing, and the convergence of social housing regulation.
- Diversity and diversification: considering the development (and implications for regulation) of new housing products and services, more sustainable communities work and care and support provision.
- Competition and modernisation: discussing new competitive pressures such as reformed allocation policies and enhanced tenants rights, and at the impacts these will have on the practice, culture and accountability of registered social landlords.
This paper is currently not publicly available.
Views of senior management
This project was an analysis of the statistical validity of certain conclusions drawn from a survey of Chief Executives and Chairs of Housing Associations, where we assisted the Compass Partnership.